The Portland daily press., 1887-05-11
BASE BALL..
New England League.
GAME TODAY,

GAME TODAY.
Today the strong Manchester team make
their first appearance in Portland. They
will present their best battery, and, it is
said, a number Of bets have been made that
they will defeat the Portlands. There will
be large crowd in attendance and there Is
no doubt that the game win be one Of the
most interesting games played in the New
England League series this season. The
game will be called promptly at 3o'clock.
PoRTLANDs, 27; HAvERHILLs, IA.
The Portlands gave the Haverhills anoth-
er drubbing yesterday and instead of the
latter's securing one of the two games, the
Portlands got in the two days fifty runs and
gave their opponents the worst pounding
that league club ever got in this city. The
game yesterday was an unequal and uninter-
esting contest and was witnessed-by a fair
sized crowd Of people. Fitzgerald pitched
three innings and the Hayerhills got only
five hits off his delivery. Then Hatfield
went into the box for practice and the visi-
tors could do no better with him although
he was little wild and gave one man his
base on balls, hit one and sent two more to
first on illegal delivery. Duffey caught and
did good work with Fitzgerald but was less
successful with Hatfield. This is what
might be expected as Hatfield pitches very
swift ball and Duffey has had but little prac-
tice in catching him.
The Haverhills presented for battery
Carter and Doyle. In the first inning Doyle
split his finger and G. Yingling was substi-
tuted. In the second inning YiDgling met
with similar mishap and Farrow came in
from left field to catch. With good sup
port Carter might have done better, but as it
was he was hit hard by everyone Of the
Portlands. Duhey. was the only man who
got less than two hits and he hit the ball
hard each time but was unfortunate.
The Portland opened the game at the bat
and secured i've runs in the first inning on
four singles and a double and base on
balls. On heavy hitting and bad errors they
added twenty-five more in the next six In
nings. sending twenty-four men to the bat In
the fourth and fifth innings.
The Hayerhills secured four runs in the
first inning on two singles, a double, base
on balls and q wild throw. In the next six
innings they added ten more, being blanked
in the second, fifth and sixth. At the close
of the seventh they gave up and asked to
have the game called. The fielding of the
Hayerhills was miserable, even worse than
the day previous, and that is saying a good
deal. The errors Of Farrow were excusable
as he was suffering from very bad finger.
But the work Of the fielders, both in the in
field and outfeld, with possibly the exeep-
tion of Lally and Berry, was about the worst
ever seen in league game here. Such play
ing is doing the New England League no
good and Manager Williams should see to il
that the next nine he brings here Is more
worthy to wear the old uniforms Of the 'S6
team.
The fielding of the Portlands was excel
lent. The score will show that tho arrnrc
were mostly made by the batteries. Luf-
berry made wild throw TO first which Schoe-
neck captured in one Of his wonderful one
hand stops. DickeIson made his first error
OF the season but it was made after a hard
run. Previous to that he had made fine
fence corner. The score will tell the rest Of
the story.